Subject: Re: pciide - slow boot
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: None <netbsd@ns.purk.ee>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/06/2003 22:44:36
Hi
Theres nothing happen ,even if i remove all the staff that sitting on
Highpoint controller.That is how our kernel deals with hardware.
Yeah..then i must wait ;-)
Greetings
Tsiteerimine Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:26:29PM -0500, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> > Here is what I have retyped from my laptop (which I do not want to open
> > and even if I did, I am unsure if it would be possible to determine if
> > cd is master/slave) from start of pause:
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatiblility mode
> > [pauses here]
> > atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 1: 2 targets
> > cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <CD-224E, , 7.5A> type 5 cdrom removeable
> > cd0: 32-bit data port
> > cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> > pciide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
> > cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA transfers)
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > So this drive seems to be a master, but I cannot be absolutely sure. I
>
> Yes, it is master ("drive 0").
>
> > will try booting an install disk on a machine which has a hard disk
> > (master on primary channel), cdrw (master on secondary channel), and
> > cdrom (slave on secondary channel) and see where if at it all it pauses
> > on ide/atapi probes. If this is repeatable, should a problem report be
> > filed out (is it worth fixing)?
>
> I have plans that should help with case like that.
> But I suspect the kernel is waiting for the device to become ready;
> in this case there's not much that can be done. We have to wait for the
> device to come ready.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>
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